There is general agreement in the Second Language Acquisition literature that there are age effects, and that children tend to outperform adults in ultimate attainment. Despite this, previous research has shown that adults ...

Moisture damage of asphalt concrete is defined as the loss of strength and stability caused by the active presence of moisture. The most common technique to mitigate moisture damage is using additives or modifiers with the ...

This article describes the virtual spaces used for education, known as virtual classrooms. The article does one advocate or describe a particular online system but talks in general about the uses of virtual classrooms in ...

A pattern, i.e., a term possibly with variables, denotes the set
(language) of all its ground instances. In an untyped setting,
symbolic operations on finite sets of patterns can represent Boolean
operations on languages. ...

Libraries are uniquely qualified to by mission to manage, curate, publish, and make discoverable research data, through the use of organizing principles, metadata and provenance information, and the systems and services ...

Poster presented at the National Postdoctoral Association's 2014 Annual Meeting in St. Louis, Missouri. The Postdoctoral Affairs Office conceptualized two certificate programs to enhance professional development: one that ...

Computing professionals have ethical obligations to clients, employers, other professionals, and the public in fulfilling their professional responsibilities. These obligations are expressed in codes of ethics, which can ...

This text was created as handout to complement a workshop called Evaluation of Web Resources. It has been downloaded or requested by educators after the workshop so since 2001 it has been distributed as stand-alone publication ...

Although many programs claim to help young people, schools, or communities prevent violence, little empirical evidence exists regarding their effectiveness. Recently, the Centers for Disease Control funded a wide variety ...

Let's start with a basic premise about evaluation--we benefit by knowing how our programs work and what we could do to make them better. From this perspective, evaluation is merely a tool for learning more about programs. ...